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Look what crawled into the Pequot Museum this week ... giant bugs. Get a bug’s-eye view of some common backyard insects and their habitat in Backyard Monsters, the newest exhibit in the Mashantucket Gallery on Saturday, Feb. 16-May 17, 9 am-5 pm. Step into a world where insects tower over humans. Giant robotic insects up to 96 times their normal size, all with lifelike colors and movements, dominate the exhibition. Come face to face with an animated 11-foot-tall, 22-foot-long tarantula, a 19-foot-wide monarch butterfly, and a pair of giant fighting beetles. Hands-on displays let you take a mechanical insect for a walk, build a bug, learn how insects communicate, make a bug rubbing, and more. With a focus on nature and natural history, the exhibit is educational while capturing the attention and imagination of children and adults. Free with Museum admission, free to Museum members.
I'm excited. After lots of reading and some trial and error I think I found a new lens to my collection, Canon 135L. This is the first testshot that I took with the lens. Only a snapshot from our backyard, but I still love it.
Background: wanted to upgrade my Canon 85/1.8 portrait lens, which I liked a lot, but was still missing a little something from the shots. First bought a Sigma 85/1.4 based on good reviews it has received on the net. Was greatly disappointed to the Sigma and returned it to store. Was not sharp even after rigorous AF micro-adjustment.
Same evening (yesterday, that is) I noticed someone selling a second hand 135L for a good price, retrieved it today during my lunch break and I think I got the lens that I was after in the first place.
Sharp wide open. Extremely fast focusing. Great color and contrast. Beautiful out-of-focus area blurring. Totally silent focusing. Paid less for this than for the Sigma 85/1.4. Nuff said.
135mm | f/2 | iso 200 | 1/640s | 50D
From a photo I took several years ago. Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook.
Sometimes I spend a lot of time agonizing over what I should sketch in my daily artist's journal. I hope to have it relevant to my current life, but sometimes not much is going on in my current life to illustrate. I finally decided today to just pick a photo, almost at random from my collection, and "just sketch it!"
Many years ago I took a buckeye out of my pocket and tossed it along my backyard fence-line. It sprouted and grew into this now nearly 15-foot tree which provided brilliant yellow foliage this fall. It hasn't bloomed in the spring and produced its own buckeyes yet, but it has survived my lawnmower and bark-scarring from the antlers of a white-tailed deer over its lifetime.
Backyard - The backyard is completely shaded by a huge pecan tree. This tree also helps keep the house cool in the summer since it shades most of the house during the summer months.
Growing on a downed log in my backyard. Any help identifying this would be appreciated. Turkey Tail maybe?
The Seed and Feed Marching Abominable band performs for a backyard party near the Little Five Points area of Atlanta.
I took a walk this evening around the apartment complex where my wife and I live. The view in our backyard this evening.
Another try at a panorama. It was a very hard contrast this time which the camera could not handle, so I tried a two row mosaic.
Meh...
I regret that I didn't add taller trees. Neighbors are shifting around, so this won't last long. Grandma lived there, then granddaughter and now daughter is moving in. They aren't noisy or anything, so no complaints, just interesting to see so much stuff back there.
This is my backyard with the smoke from the fires. I took this as 9 frames and stiched them together. My first try at a form of panarama
Black Squirrel Golf Course to celebrate the opening of the 18 hole miniputt and nine hole foot golf courses
Burlington, Vermont USA • Work of anamorphic art, designed and aggregated by Beau Wolfe, The ArchitecT. in our shared back courtyard. Neighbor Dave built a mini-oil derrick-shaped planter from recycled bamboo and pallets, scaled to cover a big drain grate (cause of many twisted ankles and falls). Beau had already built and hung on the porch a marvelous sculpture of six tetrahedron and encircling copper wire.
He decided to harness the airspace above the courtyard, and hang his sculpture, centered above Dave's planter. Beau had already harvested a broken mirror, and began to put it all together. See it Now.